ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the topical analysis of the empirical data in three key areas ministry, liturgical practice and ecclesiology categories which emerged from the investigation of the General Synod debates. It looks at the implicit theology of the parishes and reflects on that theology in light of a wider discussion of the theology of ministry. The official introduction of Extended Communion in the Church of England implicitly introduced a new category of lay minister. While in the Roman Catholic Church, Communion from the reserved sacrament has been said to be a liturgical answer to a ministry question, and reform of the ministry is not on the cards, this could not be said of Anglicanism. The separation of leadership of the community from presiding at the Eucharist is a mistake that will eventually undermine Catholic ecclesiology. The leader of the Eucharist must be the pastoral leader of the community and vice versa.
